excruciating
extremely painful; causing intense suffering; unbearably distressing; torturing: an excruciating noise;excruciating pain.
exceedingly elaborate or intense; extreme: done with excruciating care.
Origin of excruciating
1Other words for excruciating
Other words from excruciating
- ex·cru·ci·at·ing·ly, adverb
- un·ex·cru·ci·at·ing, adjective
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How to use excruciating in a sentence
Grandma died first, leaving this world feeling excruciating pain in her hips, pain that turned her beautiful soprano singing voice into screams with even the slightest movement.
Tallying up a year of loss: A lot of pounds, too many loved ones, countless connections | Jerry Brewer | December 27, 2020 | Washington PostIn his 2019 book Food or War, the Australian journalist and author Julian Cribb describes the physical process of starvation in excruciating detail.
Why people still starve in an age of abundance | Bobbie Johnson | December 17, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewDuring excruciating weeks in February, the disease ripped through the massive ship, infecting hundreds of passengers off the port of Yokohama, Japan.
Inside the Fall of the CDC | by James Bandler, Patricia Callahan, Sebastian Rotella and Kirsten Berg | October 15, 2020 | ProPublicaI think when you make a show, anytime you make a change, it’s going to be excruciating and painful.
‘Full Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air’ Cast Reunites To Celebrate The Show’s 30th Anniversary | Hope Wright | September 11, 2020 | Essence.comBecause you’re trying to deal with 50 different things every day that are painful and excruciating.
What Does Covid-19 Mean for Cities (and Marriages)? (Ep. 410) | Stephen J. Dubner | March 26, 2020 | Freakonomics
The rapper will.i.am was one such panelist, forced upon Gregory for an excruciatingly awkward roundtable segment.
David Gregory's 'Meet the Press' Eviction Exposed in Washingtonian Takedown | Lloyd Grove | December 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe journey was excruciatingly long for the establishmentarians and cost them more than they ever anticipated.
But when Westboro came to town, they made it excruciatingly clear what hate really looked like.
In the case of the excruciatingly slow-growing red abalone, this could be ten to twelve years.
The Foraging Wars: Extreme Eating Hits California | Debra A. Klein | January 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOver the past five years, Democrats have become excruciatingly sensitive to Republican abuses of this kind.
I have the first, perhaps, in Europe; but I would sell it a surprising bargain, for I am excruciatingly tired of it.'
Camilla | Fanny BurneyJackson smiled, yes, smiled, though his bandaged arms quivered and the seared nerves of his hands throbbed excruciatingly.
The Pillar of Light | Louis TracyHis humour was compared to Mark Twain's, and he to Barnum, and the show was "excruciatingly agreeable."
The Life of James McNeill Whistler | Elizabeth Robins PennellThe language, of course, was partly the difficulty, but the natives are excruciatingly slow to move.
A Journal from Japan | Marie Carmichael StopesHence the experiment of parting so soon after their union proved excruciatingly severe to these.
Two on a Tower | Thomas Hardy
British Dictionary definitions for excruciating
/ (ɪkˈskruːʃɪˌeɪtɪŋ) /
unbearably painful; agonizing
intense; extreme: he took excruciating pains to do it well
informal irritating; trying
jocular very bad: an excruciating pun
Derived forms of excruciating
- excruciatingly, adverb
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